- Stores will reduce or turn off lighting -
TORONTO, March 28, 2008 – A&P Canada will join
millions of people around the world by dimming their lights at
participating stores across Ontario to support Earth Hour. A global
initiative led by World Wildlife Fund (WWF) to help raise awareness
about global warming, Earth Hour will take place on Saturday, March
29, 2008.
While all participating A&P stores, including A&P,
Dominion, Ultra Food & Drug, The Barn and Loeb will remain open
and fully operational, at 8:00 p.m. (where open, please see
www.freshobsessed.com for store hours) customers will notice dimmed
lights at store level as the stores show their support by cutting
down on their electricity usage.
This is not the first time A&P Canada will reduce its
electrical usage. In the summer of 2007 the company was recognized
by Hydro Toronto for reducing energy consumption in stores across
the GTA.
A&P Canada has committed to help Leave it Greener by joining in
environmental initiatives that everyone can benefit from. A&P
Canada is the first to offer plastic bag recycling bins in all
stores across Ontario. Customers can return their conventional
plastic grocery bags to any A&P, Dominion, Ultra Food &
Drug, The Barn, Loeb and Food Basics stores. The used plastic bags
collected at stores are combined with plastic films at store level
and sold to companies who use the plastic to manufacture new bags
containing post consumer recycled film.
Since the recycle plastic bag program was launched in 1996, A&P
Canada has diverted 3.57 million pounds – or 250 million plastic
bags – from reaching landfills
Serving Canadians since 1927, A&P Canada Co. is a wholly owned
subsidiary of METRO INC. and operates more than 280 grocery stores
under the A&P, Dominion, Ultra Food & Drug, The Barn, Loeb
and Food Basics banners throughout Ontario. For more information
and for store locations, visit www.freshobsessed.com.
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For more information contact:
Selena Fiacco
Director, Communications
A&P Canada Co.
(416) 234-6081 / selena.fiacco@metro.ca
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